Research & Supervisory Expertise: 

Public pedagogy; psychoanalysis; posthumanism and ecocultural theory; critical museology and curatorial studies; queer theory and 2SLGBTQ+ politics; affect theory; cultural studies; critical social theory

Research Highlights:

2022. “Museums on Prescription: Reparative Logic and the Ethical Dilemma of Curating Ambivalence.” Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society 27.1, pp. 37-55. Special issue: “Trauma and Repair in the Museum”, edited by Alexandra Kokoli and Maria Walsh. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00276-2

2017. “Life and Death: The Freudian Roots of Necropolitics and the Question of ‘Civil’ Living.” Somatechnics: Bodies – Technology – Power 7.2, pp. 234-249. Special issue: “The Somatechnics of Sexuality in Canada”, edited by reese simpkins and Kelly Fritsch.

Academic Positions:

• Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, 2024-Present
• Research Facilitator, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, 2022-Present
• Research Advisor, Indigenous Research Support Team, University of Calgary, 2022
• Research Associate, Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS), University of Winnipeg, 2017-22

Academic Background

• PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University, 2021
• Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) & Collaborative Program in Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, 2015
• BA, Women’s Studies & History of Art, Design, & Visual Culture, University of Alberta, 2012

Available to co-supervise graduate students.